Data Center Decommissioning in Lyon

France-IX has an exchange point in Lyon, with multiple points of presence in the city. Lyon also hosts the international headquarters of Interpol, and it is the second-largest student city in France. ETIX Lyon #1 stands on Boulevard du Parc d Artillerie in Lyon. For a retired platform in the city, Reboot Monkey engineers work in the customer's rack, removing the hardware and keeping the record of what was taken out.

The work follows a fixed order. Serial numbers, asset tags and rack positions are recorded against the customer's asset list. Removal is scheduled with the customer in advance, including any out-of-hours or weekend windows the facility requires. Every item is logged as it is removed, so the customer holds a written account of what left the rack and when.

Data centres in Lyon, ordered by the number of networks present:

Data center decommissioning is the removal and disposal of retired hardware. In Lyon, the scope covers the equipment that fills a rack and everything that connects it.

Reboot Monkey is a third-party datacenter services operator. It sells rack space, IP transit, leased IP addresses, network, data-centre hardware and the services that deliver, install and support them, inside data centres that other companies own and run. It is not a hosting company and it does not own datacenters.

In Lyon that has a practical meaning for a decommissioning job. The facility operator owns and runs the building, including its power, cooling and access policy, and Reboot Monkey engineers work under the operator's site rules. The engineers handle the equipment and the paperwork around it, while the building stays with the operator.

If the retired racks also carried network services, the connectivity side is handled by the same operator. Reboot Monkey orders the cross connects and carrier circuits from the facility operator and the carriers present in the facility, and its engineers install and patch the cabling in the customer's rack. A decommissioning request can therefore sit beside a migration or a new installation under the same relationship. For work that continues after hardware is removed, such as moving equipment between racks, rooms or facilities, server migration is delivered by the same engineers.

These terms apply in every facility in Lyon where Reboot Monkey engineers work.

The data centres we work in hold their own certifications, such as ISO/IEC 27001 and ISO 9001. Ask us for the certificate of your site.

Reboot Monkey runs decommissioning work across France, and the same procedure applies in each city: assets recorded against the customer's list, removal scheduled in advance, every item logged as it is removed. For a project in the capital, Data Center Decommissioning in Paris follows the same steps.

As of 2026, Reboot Monkey's field engineers work in 190 countries and more than 400 locations. A second, briefed Reboot Monkey engineer is named as backup for every customer site. Prices are quoted on request and depend on the customer and the size of the job.

Decommissioning often sits next to other work on the same estate. A customer that is retiring one set of racks may be placing replacement equipment in another facility, and Colocation in Lyon covers rack space and the services around it in the same city. IT asset disposition is the related path for retired equipment, covering data wiping, on-site shredding or degaussing, collection and transport, and resale or buyback quoted case by case. Reboot Monkey staff carry out that work in a partner's processing facility or on the customer's site.

Hardware that stays in service can be watched by the Reboot Monkey NOC, which provides monitoring of the customer's servers and network equipment. New hardware is installed through rack and stack, which covers installing, mounting and cabling it.